Photo: Good-Bye by yahtzeen. CC BY Generic 2.0

It is with a mixture of excitement, anticipation and butterflies that I am finally making this announcement. For those of you who don’t already know the news, I am moving on from Creative Commons Australia to take up a position as the Digital Content Officer at the Australia Council for the Arts.

If you’re reaction was, “Woah, but hasn’t Elliott been at Creative Commons for ages?” don’t worry, you’re right. I have. I started with Professor Brian Fitzgerald at QUT Law School in the middle of 2004. I’ve been working along side him and his amazingly talents gaggle of researchers and advocates for a long time. I have lived and breathed copyright, digital technologies and new business models – you all know that, you undoubtedly have heard me talk about these issues hundreds of times. Just go through the archive of this blog/my twitter posts/my delicious bookmarks if you don’t believe me.

It has been an absolute honour to work with Brian and all of the people who are or have worked at the Intellectual Property research projects at QUT and to have worked with the entire network of amazing minds at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation that has hosted ccAustralia and the research programs into Creative Commons.

Obviously the decision to make this move has been a big one. I have very mixed feelings about leaving a job that has been such a major part of my life, that I still really enjoy and that let’s me learn and explore topics that I still really love. That said, I am looking forward to the change and to the new challenges ahead. It was the right time to do something else and this really exciting and awesome opportunity at the Australia Council arose. To take up the position I am moving to Sydney. I start at the Australia Council on 8 August.

I invite anyone who would like to see me before I go to attend the etcc remixable art exhibition for Brisbane which will of course be held at Shøøting Gallery. If you can make it, please be sure to find me and say hello/good bye! ^_^

♥ Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Good-Bye‘ by yahtzeen, Creative Commons BY Generic 2.0.